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A suspect police say was evading arrest fell from a ninth-storey window at 360 Cumberland Ave., landing on top of the third-floor parkade. He is in stable condition at hospital in Winnipeg. (KRISTIN ANNABLE/WINNIPEG SUN/QMI AGENCY)

Police say a man miraculously survived a six-storey fall, landing on top of a parkade, while attempting to evade arrest.

The incident happened about 9:50 p.m. Sunday, when police — including members of the tactical support team — descended on an apartment suite inside a tower on the 300-block of Cumberland Avenue.

Const. Jason Michalyshen said four men were taken into custody, but the fifth attempted to evade arrest by escaping through a window on the ninth floor. He fell six storeys as a result, landing on top of the third-floor parkade.

“Based on our investigation, it appears he was attempting to evade officers — being aware that officers were present, in the process of executing a warrant — and he was trying to flee,” he said. “As a result of this attempt, he fell and he fell from a significant height and unfortunately sustained some pretty serious injuries.”

The suspect is now in stable condition at hospital.

Police had received information guns and/or weapons would be in the apartment and were in the midst of executing a search warrant when the incident took place.

Several guns, ammunition, a small amount of crack cocaine, drug paraphernalia, and cash were seized in the raid, said police.

All five men, whose ages range from 18 to 26, face numerous drug- and weapon-related offences, said police. They remain in custody, while police say the fifth suspect will remain under hospital care for “some time.”

Due to his medical condition, police are still working on identifying the injured man.

“Right now, the priority for this individual is to receive the medical care he requires,” Michalyshen said.

A suspect fleeing from the police is something cops deal with regularly, but usually not to this extreme, Michalyshen said.

“The uniqueness to this is the length that the individual went and the risk that he put himself in by trying to evade officers,” he said.

As miraculous as it seemingly is to survive such a fall, it’s not the first time a Winnipeg man has lived through such a crash. In June 2012, window washer Chris Piper fell eight storeys while working at a 10-storey complex at 850 Cambridge Ave. Piper, who was said to be in his late 20’s at the time, suffered lower-body injuries in the fall but surprisingly no broken bones.